K-1 Grand PrixK-1 is a combat sport that combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Savate, San shou, Kickboxing and traditional Boxing to determine the single best stand-up fighter in the world (the "1").

It depends who you are watching Petrosyan and Remy are absurdly technical. The way combat sports are scored dictates how the competitors fight also. It is a lot harder to get a 10-9 round in K1 than MMA or boxing. If you don't score a knockdown you basically run the risk of losing the fight because you lost one round. Which makes it beneficial to the fighters to take more risks and thus makes the fights more exciting. Point fighting is ******* boring you can't make money off of it.

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Originally Posted by osmium

It depends who you are watching Petrosyan and Remy are absurdly technical. The way combat sports are scored dictates how the competitors fight also. It is a lot harder to get a 10-9 round in K1 than MMA or boxing. If you don't score a knockdown you basically run the risk of losing the fight because you lost one round. Which makes it beneficial to the fighters to take more risks and thus makes the fights more exciting. Point fighting is ******* boring you can't make money off of it.

Might also stem a bit from the old muay thai rules where anytime you moved backwards you lost points (some orgs still do that). So you end up with two guys going toe to toe until one man falls.
'Technique' tends to invole movement in and out, defensive strategies etc.
The mindset in K1 is generally go for as many knockdowns as possible as quickly as possible so it can appear more brawling in nature.
But just look at the technique on some of the kicks or Reems counter punching.
Good Technique should surely be what works best, most effective, and I think most of the K1 guys have that down pretty well.